6. W. H. C. Frend, 'Athanasius as an Egyptian Christian Leader in the Fourth Century,' New College Bulletin 8 (1974), 20-37, reprinted as Religion Popular and Unpopular in the Early Omstian Centuries (London, 1976), No. XVI.

15. Canon 6, cf. H. Chadwick, 'Faith and Order at the Council of Nicaea: A Note on the Background of the Sixth Canon,' HTR 53 (1960), 171-195.

16. For the inference, based on Sozomenus, HE 3.9.5, which restricts it to Alexandria, see J. Karayannopulos, Das Finanzwesen des friihbyzantinischen Staates [Siidosteuropaische Arbeiten (Munich 1958]), 216/7.

18. See now the recent volume edited by M. Beard and J. North, Pagan Priests: Religion and Power in the Ancient World (London, 1990): the first chapter, by M. Beard, rightly stresses the religious role of the Senate in the Roman republic, which far outstripped that of the priestly colleges or the individual priests, who were all of senatorial rank (19-48).